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Due to the critical requirement of absolute scanning, processing, and tabulating accuracy - as mandated by MRC and DMS - an extensive Acceptance Testing Document was prepared by WLC. The first 40-page section describes in detail the many tests involved, and the second 21-page section covers maintenance procedures, and additional diagnostic tests, including the General Electric 340 Terminet printer, and the Data Products Model 2470 Line Printer. It is worth noting that the high-speed (~ 100,000 ballots/hour) WLC equipment in the 1970's performed flawlessly in several major elections in Douglas & Sarpy County, NE, and in St. Joseph, MO. Compare this to the many irregularities and errors associated with vote-tallying equipment from the 2000 election onward!

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This pamphlet covers the topics and personnel in one of the many WLC Headquarters reviews conducted at the MRC facility in Iowa City, IA. Ten WLC Headquarters staff members are identified, and eleven MRC staff managers are identified. The JVM Archival DVD Folder of the same name contains seven JPEG-Image scans of the booklet, and the Original Copy is included in the 3-Ring binder

Scope and Contents As has been covered extensively elsewhere in the JVM-to-UI accession materials (documents, drawings, brochures, and DVD media), Westinghouse Learning Corporation, in the 1974-1978 time frame, developed a high-speed paper ballot OMR processing system for a startup company, Data Mark Systems, in Omaha, NE. Given that this was the first system of its type to be used in U. S. Primary and General Elections, a lot of interest was generated by potential users (e.g., States and Counties). Accordingly, the California State Commission on Voting Machines and Vote Tabulating Devices contracted a company, Tri-Tek Industries, 95 Main Street, Los Altos, CA 94022, to conduct an 'onsite' evaluation the WLC/DMS system during the May 5, 1978 Primary in Douglas County, NE. This Original Copy (e.g., the copy provided to WLC) of the 17-page Report summarizes the results. The spiral-bound report also includes a rare complete set of the 6 Original colored-ink diagnostic ballots designed for checking out...

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This undated and non-attributed article/testimonial to Dr. E. F. Lindquist, published after his death (probably shortly thereafter) is an eloquent summary of his life. A JPEG scan of the article is included in this folder on the JVM Archival Media disc

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Irving Weber, noted Iowa City historian, published many articles in the local paper about historical events and buildings. Page 6B of the Saturday, October 11, 1980 Issue of the Press Citizen devoted a full page to the entire block along College, Burlington, Capitol, and Madison Streets, now occupied by "the $10 million Lindquist Center College of Education and the campus that surrounds it…" The lower left-corner of the Press Citizen Page 6B contains the heading, "Lindquist built in 2 phases", showing a photo of the Lindquist Center, and three columns of historical, explanatory, and descriptive text. This JVM Accession item includes an Original Page 6B from the above Press-Citizen publication date, and JPEG Image scans of the this page in the folder on in the accompanying Archival Media disc

Scope and Contents I attended the SIGGRAPH conference and exposition in Dallas in 1981, and was startled to see - as many other attendees were - a demonstration by a new company, TRUEVISION, a subsidiary of AT&T, who was demonstrating a novel frame-grabber, known as the TARGA board. Basically, this PC-AT computer compatible printed-circuit board could 'grab' images from a standard TV signal, and by the use of the companion DOS-based Truevision software, could perform amazing post-grab processing on the captured image, such as the many 'now ordinary' manipulations that can easily be done today with a host of readily available and inexpensive Windows-based software running on personal computers. However, in 1981, this was viewed as a 'breakthrough' product. I ordered one, at over $1,000 cost, to use for image-technology experiments and in our WLC shop, and later, after the NCS acquisition of WLC by NCS, we developed TARGA-based electronic slide-show presentations for potential customers to impress...

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An MS Word file: 1982_10_U of I SPECTATOR Reprint of E.F.Lindquist_ORG.doc, prepared by JVM (with 'caption correction' footnotes) is included & the original SPECTATOR Clipping

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An Original Copy of the PRESS-CITIZEN Newspaper, dated November 16, 1984, featuring a front-page article about the AMERICAN COLLEGE TESTING business (ACT) in Iowa City, IA. A 1950s vintage photo of Dr. E. F. Lindquist in standing in front of his 'Mod II' OMR Test Scoring Machine is shown. The front-page article continues on Page 8A, and features a photo of Dr. Oluf Davidson, ACT President at the time. The JVM Archival Media Disc contains JPEG scans of the article

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The earliest archival-recorded R&D activity at the WLC Engineering Facility in Iowa City into the potential incorporation of CCD linear-array line-scan cameras into a new OMR Scanner product line was in early 1977, and more than ten years later, the priority was still very high on our R&D activity list. This Accession Item is a letter to JVM from Burkhard Zellner, the Marketing Manager of Fairchild Weston Instruments, Milpitas, CA. This is the company from which we purchased the CCD-array camera modules for several years, working closely with them in the specifications we required, trading liaison visits back and forth as required. Zellner paid a visit to our WLC Iowa City R&D Facility in March 1989 and had some very complimentary comments to offer in his letter following his visit. The Archival DVD Folder 1989_FAIRCHILD LETTER to JVM contains the JPEG-images of the 2-page letter, and a transcribed MS Word file 1989_03_29_FAIRCHILD LETTER to JVM_ORG.doc

Scope and Contents The first three pages of this undated 6-page NCS Information Handout begins with a brief account of Dr. E. F. Lindquist's founding of the Iowa Testing Program in the 1930s, to the founding of MRC in June 1953, the founding of ACT in March 1959, MRC selling its first scanner in 1960, [JVM Note: likely to Science Research Associates (SRA), but the date cited may be slightly in error, or at least very late in 1960], further history of MRC (new downtown building in 1964), the WLC acquisition of MRC in 1968, moving into the new Dodge Street facility in 1972, name change in 1979 to Westinghouse DataScore Systems, purchase of WLC in November 1983, and onward to further growth and the award of large contracts. Then, on page-4, begins a brief historical summary of National Computer Systems (NCS): Incorporated in March 1962, description of early scanners, first public stock offering in 1968, acquisition of United Mailing Corporation in 1969, acquisition of Data Action in 1972, acquisition of...

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A foldout Pamphlet that features 16 inventors inducted as members, including Dr. E. F. Lindquist, inducted in posthumously in 1982. The JVM Archival media disc features JPEG image files of the entire pamphlet

Scope and Contents On August 1, 2003, the PEARSON Educational Measurement Company, at their facility in Iowa City, held a 50th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of Measurement Research Center, by Dr. E. F. Lindquist (and to recognize, as well, the successor companies that followed, as the result of MRC being acquired by Westinghouse Learning Corporation (WLC) in June 1968, then National Computer Systems (NCS) acquiring WLC in November 1983, and finally, PEARSON acquiring NCS in 2000, renaming the new entity as NCS Pearson, and finally, in 2002, becoming known as PEARSON Educational Measurement Co. I attended this celebration - as a surviving 'old timer' - who first worked at MRC during my SUI student electrical-engineering days in 1956-57, then later returning from a 2-year stint as an atomic-test engineer in Albuquerque, NM to rejoin Dr. Lindquist's MRC Engineering staff as a project Engineer in March 1959. I rode through the WLC acquisition until I resigned in July 1978, and after two years...

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An Original Copy of the WINTER 2003 Issue of the University of Iowa SPECTATOR Publication, featuring an article on Page-5 about H. D. Hoover, and his role in ITED. This article includes a vintage early1950s photo of Dr. E. F. Lindquist, President of MRC, and Robert Edberg, Chief Engineer in the early days of the MOD I Scoring Machine. Image scans of the article included in the JVM Archival Media disc

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This article in the November 13, 2006 issue of Fortune Magazine is a good reference about the role of DIEBOLD in the Electronic Vote Tallying business. While it doesn't mention by name my circa 1974-1979 business associate, Robert J. Urosevich, former President of Data Mark Systems (DMS), circa 1974 onward, who later became President of the DIEBOLD Election Systems Division, he is certainly chastised indirectly when the article discusses the aftermath of the June 2001 Diebold acquisition of Global Election Systems of McKinney, Texas - which Urosevich was also president of when Diebold acquired them. The Archival DVD in this U of I Accession Set #3: 2006_11_13_Fortune Mag_Rage Against the Machine, contains an MS Word file JVM text-transcription of the Fortune Magazine article (from an Internet download), and a set of JPEG-Image scans of the 8 original article pages, plus the Magazine Cover page, as they appeared in the magazine

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The frame of the PEARSON URL site gives a brief overview/summary of the HISTORY, commencing in 1953 with Dr. Lindquist, to the WLC acquisition, followed by the NCS acquisition, and the 2000 acquisition by Pearson. A printout is attached, for quick reference

Scope and Contents As extensively documented in the 14 NOV 2006 JVM Accession of documents to the U of I, in the mid-1970's Westinghouse Learning Corporation (WLC) developed a high-speed paper ballot scanning system, based upon similar concepts used in their line of Optical Mark Readers for Student Test scoring - such as the ITBS, ITED, ACT, and similar tests - to sell to a startup company in Omaha, NE - Data Mark Systems, Robert J. Urosevich, President. John V. McMillin, Product Development Manager at WLC, together with Robert J. Roelf, WLC Hardware Marketing Manager, were instrumental in implementing and guiding this project to a successful conclusion for a series of primary and general elections held from 1976 to 1978 in Douglas County, NE, and other locations. Years later, as the key principals in this endeavor had 'gone their separate ways', Robert J. Urosevich became President of DEIBOLD's Electronic Voting Systems Divisions and in the early 2000s, began marketing their touch-screen AccuVote...

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This is my first MRC Lab Notebook when I was working at MRC as a student engineer from February 1956 to late January 1957. The entries in this notebook, however don't begin until June 21, 1956 and the last entry is dated September 3, 1956. The JVM Archival DVD Folder 1956_06_MRC Eng.Notebk JVM#01 contains forty-one JPGE-Image scans of selected pages from the notebook, as well as the cover, and photos of electronic test equipment I designed in the summer of 1956 for Lindquist's Mod I MRC scoring machine. A 3-ring notebook binder is provided with photocopies of all pages of Notebook #1 that contains entries. The original notebook is not included

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This is my second MRC Lab Notebook, with the first entry dated March 3, 1959 after I returned from my previous 2-year employment at Sandia Corporation and rejoined MRC as a project engineer. A 3-ring notebook binder is provided with photocopies of all pages of Notebook #1 that contains entries. The original notebook is not included. The Archival DVD Folder, named as above, contains a JPEG-Image scan of the cover and a few of the early entries

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This Accession Item is a photocopy set of the pages from my MRC-JVM Lab Book #4; the entries beginning on March 3, 1960. The Archival DVD Folder of the same name contains only a JPEG-Image scan of the cover of the spiral-bound original, and a few additional scans of dated pages. The photocopy set of the entire contents is provided in a 3-Ring Notebook binder. Note: Although the cover of the original notebook shows the entries extending to September 22, 1962, the most recent date found is February 7, 1961 - thus pages may have been removed long ago, or else there is a recording error